FORA.tv Speaker - Jase Wilson

Biography

Jase Wilson is co-founder and CEO of Neighborly, the Community Investment Marketplace. Neighborly connects people with high-quality opportunities to invest directly in the places and civic projects they care about, and gives communities the tools needed for "crowd-first" financing of amenities and infrastructure. Before co-founding Neighborly, Wilson studied cities, technology and real estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While there, he consulted for several domestic and international city governments on use of digital technology and authored a thesis on using Web-based technologies to deepen civic engagement. As an undergraduate, he founded Luminopolis, a civic software agency.